![]() ![]() Some works from the period, such as Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita and Isaac Babel's short stories, have gained canonical status. Russia, since the late Sixties and especially since the fall of Communism, has been reclaiming the writers and artists of Stalin's purges. All nations surely suffer these tectonic alterations of their pasts, but they are especially important when work is forgotten for reasons graver than the stupidity of book reviewers. But after these figures ascend to their rightful place, it is difficult to imagine how we looked at our letters without them. It was through no fault of our own that Faulkner became our greatest novelist we have France and then the Nobel committee to thank for that. Scott Fitzgerald fell into relative obscurity. From the 1930s till his death prompted a revival in the 1940s, F. Americans, in 1900, did not know they had Melville. We can never be quite certain of our holdings. ![]() A nation's literary patrimony is a strange thing. ![]()
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